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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Rethinking how money moves between people and places.

San Francisco, California, Us

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Designed:• Afterpay Ads: a new revenue stream for Afterpay• Afterpay iQ: powerful analytics for merchants• Budgeting tools• KYC flows across multiple countries• Notifications inbox• In-browser offers• Fraud prevention• and more

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Clients:• Hims & Hers ($1.2B market cap)• Writer ($21M series A)• Invoice2Go (acquired by Bill.com for $625m)• and more

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Established Tilt’s design language.• Designed Tilt’s peer-to-peer payment feature which saw rapid adoption, especially in international markets.• Designed Tilt’s creation flow, referrals, organizer tools, check-in, groups, tutorials, campaign page, and more.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Led the creation of Tilt’s first full-featured iOS app in our transition to a mobile-first product.• Acted in a dual-role, serving as Product Manager and Designer simultaneously.• Collaborated with engineers to build quality experiences in a fast-paced development cycle.

Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Kr

• Led concept development of UI/UX for future product concepts for R&D.• Provided creative direction and worked alongside outside agencies to develop prototypes.• Collaborated with PMs, Industrial Designers, UI/UX Designers, and Researchers to deliver innovative product concepts that met user needs and aligned with business goals.• Presented prototypes to executives, including the CEO, to get support for further development or commercialization.

Ridgefield Park, Nj, Us

• Ideate, research, and prototype future consumer devices and experiences for mobile, TV, and smart home appliances.• Design & Develop User Interfaces for a wide range of futuristic devices, ranging from familiar touch screens to more experimental form factors.• Communicate thoughtfully crafted points of view and marketing messages to sell concepts through and work toward commercialization. Great ideas have great storytellers.• Collaborate across disciplines, design agencies, and Samsung HQ in South Korea to design, develop, and pitch innovative tech products for the future.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Startup dedicated to helping companies more effectively communicate with their employees by leveraging digital mediums.• Designed a more human approach to traditionally dry HR & On-boarding processes, helping companies such as Facebook, Tesla, and Leapfrog to better empower their employees.• Quickly and consistently produced high quality, on-brand deliverables for a multitude of clients, as well as GuideSpark's white label Financial Wellness Center.• Learned to communicate complex topics in simple and effective ways. The dryness and complexity of 401k's, Wills & Trusts, and Medical Savings Accounts could be overcome with effective writing skills, clever graphic design, typography, and motion graphics.

• Young, ambitious, and eager to jump into the wild world of web design, I set a goal with a friend to get rapper Lil' Wayne to hire us to design his website. We failed. As with most failure, however, our pursuit led to other successes.• Most notably we redesigned and launched an entirely new DJBooth.net, which had 800,000 unique visits per month at that time.